Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Susanna Büsing Supervisor: Prof. Michel Jayboyedoff Internal Experts: MSc. Antoine Guerin, Dr. Marc-Henri Derron External Expert: Dr. Marcia Phillips On 31 July 2011, a rockfall with an estimated volume of 7000 …
Susanna Büsing: Analyse spécifique de l’activité récente des éboulements au Piz Lischana (Basse-Engadine) Read MoreThe Risk group participed in a study conducted by researchers at the University of Lausanne whose results where published in Nature Plants . Results reveal that the genome of oak Napoleon has …
3D modelling the oak of Napoléon Read Moreby Pierrick Nicolet, Marc Choffet, Marc-Henri Derron, Michel Jaboyedoff and Bertrand Lauraux: “Evaporite sinkhole risk for a building portfolio” Karst-related hazard can be a problem for buildings, especially in the …
New publication in Environmental Earth Sciences about sinkhole-related risk Read MoreFive people of the Risk Analysis Group went to Bondo, Canton of Graubünden, on 29 September 2017 to make a helicopter flight along the debris flow and cliff collapse of …
Flight at Bondo (GR) Read MoreHYDRUS short course and 5th International Conference “Hydrus Software Applications to Subsurface Flow and Contaminant Transport Problems”, 26-30 march 2017, Prague Agnes Kouame, PhD student in the Risk group, attended …
HYDRUS CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP, PRAGUE 2017- CZECH REPUBLIC Read MorePierrick Nicolet defended publicly on the 9th of January his PhD entitled “Quantitative risk analysis for natural hazards at local and regional scales”. The thesis aims at improving the quantification …
Thesis on risk analysis available for download Read More
Pierrick Nicolet Director: Prof. Dr Michel Jaboyedoff Jury: Prof. Dr Paolo Frattini, Dr Alexander Garcia Aristizabal, Dr Markus Imhof, Dr Farrokh Nadim, Prof. Dr Suren Erkman, Prof. Dr Jean-Luc Epard …
Pierrick Nicolet: Quantitative risk analysis for natural hazards at local and regional scales Read MoreFrom 15 to 26 March 2017, Dr. Jean Kouamé visited the risk group at the University of Lausanne to help on the finalization of Amenan Agnès Kouamé’s thesis directed by …
STAY OF DR KOUAME KAN JEAN AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE Read MoreThe Risk Group participated to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on 17 April to 22 May 2017. This huge meeting brought together 14’496 scientists from 107 countries with …
Risk group @ EGU 2017 in Vienna Read MoreThe Risk Group participated to 6th Interdisciplinary Workwhop on Rockfall Protection in Barcelona, Spain, on 22-24 May 2017. The first two days, we followed the different presentations while the third day, …
Risk group @ RocExs 2017 – Barcelona Read MoreFour persons of the Risk Group participated to the 12th International Symposium on Landslides (ISL) in Napoli, Italy, on 12 to 19 June 2016. We presented one lecture and three orals. All contributions at …
Risk group at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides (ISL) Read MoreOn last 8th July Friday, two PhD students (Raja Mastouri and Zar Chi Aye) from the Risk Analysis group have successfully finished their public defenses and obtained their doctoral degrees …
Two more PhD students completed their theses at the Risk Analysis group Read More